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by Eliezer 14y ago
I'd've rated Adipotide at 2 (make a large difference to the lives of hundreds of millions of people), and even with cognitive effects factored in, well, Apple hasn't had zero cognitive effect either. The thing is, there was already an ag
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by Eliezer 14y ago
3 is pretty decent. I can respect somebody trying for 3.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
You kinda can. Life isn't a comic book, and if you saw Elon Musk when he was 15, he wouldn't have any special aura of destiny glowing around him. I'm not saying that everyone can grow up to be Elon Musk, but he didn't have any sort of spe
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Holy schmaloly, that actually is a 3 if it works. Anyone else got 3 or higher?
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Can you say where the scariest and most ambitious convincing pitch was on the following scale? 1) We're going to build the next Facebook! 2) We're going to found the next Apple! 3) Our product will create sweeping political change! This
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by Eliezer 14y ago
We never pitched him on the Singularity Institute ( http://singularity.org/research/ ), but I doubt he's ever been seriously pitched on anything more ambitious than "build a recursively self-improving Artificial Intelligence with a stable,
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I'd just like to note, because nobody else seems to actually be saying it out loud, that this is potentially the most important thing for world poverty that we've heard about in the last 10 years. If this model works , and more countries s
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I wasn't surprised by the drugs part, but learning that stolen bikes are considered street currency actually makes me more bullish on Bitcoin. It's still a terrible idea, but it's got to be more convenient than using bikes as currency. I w
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Is it just me, or are a lot of those challenges crap? Biological quantum field theory being used to control the evolution of pathogens? WTF? Who wrote this, a Markov algorithm?
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Am I the only one who reads this and thinks that it sounds like a merely pointless ritual of "Why, no, I couldn't possibly do that, the gods would be displeased" that ruined some poor startup's day? If you have a perfectly good story, why
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I've stayed away from management my entire life because I assess my own management-talent as so low, and even I can know this isn't how you do it. Managing by fear does not make for a pleasant job experience!
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Actually, I think the bet may have been worded so that if gold gains 2% and bitcoin gains 200%, the bet is won. This makes it substantially harder to arbitrage.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
It's like the lottery, only you win using skill instead of luck! Oh, wait...
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Airline regulations imply powerful unions imply regular Chapter 11 bankruptcies(philip.greenspun.com)
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by Eliezer 14y ago
> Evolution wise, we're disposable. Women are not. The human race can easily be replenished with 99 women and 1 man. But not with 99 men and 1 women This is not how evolution works. It runs on which genes outreproduce which other genes
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by Eliezer 14y ago
If and when Padmapper stops innovating and sues people who try to scrap their data, I'll cheer anyone who scrapes Padmapper.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
That's probably a good summary of the way I feel too - like Craigslist defected first in this Prisoner's Dilemma.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
It is more efficient and that does justify the decision. Consequentialist ethics runs on quantitative considerations rather than right-of-way, so "it's more efficient" isn't an absolute right-of-way that would mean that you ought to do any
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Padmapper certainly helped me find an apartment. Twice, and the second one was so difficult that I might not've successfully moved to be near the rest of the Singularity Institute ( no relation to SU ), if not for Padmapper. If you did it
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by Eliezer 14y ago
If CL had a more elegant UI, I would also be against the OP continuing against CL's wishes. What makes CL the bad guy in this case is that they're locking up a critical system-economic element, not doing anything with it, and trying to pre
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I liked that calculation. I was inwardly cheering while reading it. Quantitative ethics FTW.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Indeed, if you're going to give out 25,000 rupees at random, be sure to give them to people doing productive work. Unfortunately, increasing the flow of money to the begging sector increases the number of beggars, it does not make individu
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Not at the moment.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
The Singularity Institute is working on it (or rather, the spinning-off Center for Applied Rationality is working on it); and indeed, we have literally been known to refer to it as "Defense Against the Dark Arts".
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Peter Thiel doesn't think Einstein was wasting his time, and isn't expressing disapprobation of physics or science; he's expressing disapprobation of modern physics-academia, and the presumption that the thing to do with your genius is obvi
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by Eliezer 14y ago
Yep! Congratulations to the field of physics as a whole for having a substantially better grasp on... call it, "completing the pattern of reality"... than I thought it did. My credence in dark matter and dark energy is also substantially
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I'm a bit surprised by this; I'd expect spy satellites to be able to spot a rogue 747.
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by Eliezer 14y ago
How the hell does light rail track cost $2.5M/mile? How did people build railroad tracks back in the days of horses and buggys?
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by Eliezer 14y ago
I agree. Moderators, know that if you kill this thread too, you have my support. HN isn't a democracy, and anyone who thinks the readers somehow own it is welcome to go somewhere else.
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(Of whom Peter Thiel is a known fan.)

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